Livelihoods or Cleanliness: The Economics Behind Africa’s Vendor Crackdowns
Lusaka, Harare and Accra are moving traders off their pavements. The pavements keep filling up again. Is the problem the vendor, or the plan? The Man Who Pulled Down His Own Shop For more than five years, Maxwell Mwenda traded from a makeshift shop on Lumumba Road. As the council’s 29 September deadline passed, he did not wait for the police. He pulled the shop down himself. “I don’t even…
